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Topic: Bypass: Native American Gun Store? (Read 1192 times)

Can Native American reservations sell firearms according to tribal law dictates? Could tribes in New York offer firearms for sale that ignore the latest hysteria from the NY Legislature?

I am completely ignorant on this topic and am asking for facts. It seems to me that if reservation stores can sell fireworks and tax-free cigarettes on tribal lands, similar exemption from state laws should apply to firearms.

I'm guessing that AR-15's in New York should sell for a nice premium. The irony value of Native Americans selling firearms to regular citizens of the US: priceless.

Fortuna Fortis Paratus“In the house of a wise man are stores of food, wine, and oil, but the foolish man devours all he has.” Proverbs 21:20"We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master." -Pashtun malik, 1815

It really depends on the tribe and the tribal council, mostly tribal laws usually apply to those living on the reservation, only. Your firearms license may not be valid on the reservation, and tribal police usually work with local law enforcement, in such matters.

I don't think the Yankton Souix, on the Rosebud Reservation, really would care for the additional headaches involved, but they are fairly well armed as a group. ( some of the more established criminal groups learned how well armed they were, when the casinos began to open.)

Another aspect of this would be for the tribes to offer storage lockers on the reservation for firearms owners who were waiting for the hysteria to pass. If I drove in from a more rational state, stopped to pick up my firearms, and moved on to another rational state, it would be legal for me to carry my firearms through New York.

More important would be to give New Yorkers a place to store their legal firearms during the hysteria. Rental fees on storage lockers would be a much less complicated income stream than firearms sales.

Fortuna Fortis Paratus“In the house of a wise man are stores of food, wine, and oil, but the foolish man devours all he has.” Proverbs 21:20"We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master." -Pashtun malik, 1815